The exhibit brings into conversation the work of two artists who, independent of each other, have created a body of work that addresses the impact of the Holocaust through their personal approaches. Each of them wrestles with their own story and perspective as a second generation Jewish artist working in a post-Shoah world. Their work is evocative and provocative. Juxtaposing their drawings, prints and art books in one show will heighten the creative tension contained in and exuding from their work. The proposed exhibit promises to be a unique encounter between two mature and recognized artists.

Arie Galles and Karen Baldner know of each other’s work, but they have not met in person and their work has never been shown together. Arie Galles, who was born in 1944 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (former USSR), and lived in Poland and Israel before coming to the US, was director of the Creative Arts Program at Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, CA, where he now is Professor of Art. Karen Baldner, who grew up in West Germany in a Jewish family, teaches BookArts and Drawing at Herron School of Art & Design at Indiana University, Indianapolis.